What is the difference between i love lucy and the lucy show

According to Closer Weekly, things came to an end due to some poor negotiation that took place. During the beginning of the show, Desi Arnaz still ran part of Desilu Studios. However, Lucille Ball bought him out and others were put in his old position to help out. Apparently, some people claimed that Vance wanted more money and to be a full partner on the show.

Vivian did want script input. I know this character. Not that I dislike I Love Lucy, but to me The Lucy Show is overall a better production, the actors have better chemistry together, and there is a classy and professional look to it that is absent in I Love Lucy. I also think overall The Lucy Show episodes have better writing, there are a few clunkers as well but I Love Lucy also has it's share of weak episodes.

Last edited by retroTVfan4ever; at PM. What a tremendous straight man to all of Lucy's antics and nobody could "blow up" better than he could. I wonder how long the series would have continued after Vivian Vance left had Gale Gordon not been on it?

Lucy had better on screen chemistry with Gale Gordon than she did with Desi. Wilson in Dennis The Menace for the season. I think The Lucy Show could have continued on as it was after the 6th season, but Lucy wanted to shake things up a bit, hence the change in format and title change to Here's Lucy. Two totally different shows, and both are good in their own right. With all due respect, that's one of the strangest statements I've ever read here. I can't think of any two actors who had better on-screen chemistry than Lucy and Desi.

That's always been one of the hallmarks of this show, the superb chemistry between them and all the players. That's what made I Love Lucy work and remain popular to this day. This is like the world of opposites: the sky is green, the president has blond hair and blue eyes, and Lucy and Desi did not have good on-screen chemistry.

I agree that the contributions of Vivian Vance and William Frawley were indispensable and helped elevate this show to classic status, but to say it would have been a failure without them is a bit extreme. After all, Lucille Ball's preceding radio series did not feature either Vance or Frawley, yet it was still a success.

Nevertheless, people turned out in droves to see that movie knowing they were only getting Lucy and Desi. If Lucy and Desi did not have good on-screen chemistry, all those millions of people wouldn't have been standing in line paying money to see them together. And Just Like That Corman Mr. Mayor Moonbase 8 The Ms. Box Office Mr. Iglesias Mr. Mom Mr. Samantha Who? Who's the Boss? Law MacGyver Magnum P. Lucille notoriously favored and doted on Gale Gordon; if she was abusive with everyone else she worshipped the ground he walked on.

And ironically, though she fought with everyone else, she was thick as thieves with Bill Frawley. It was Vivian Vance Frawley hated. Lucy did a couple of The Untouchables-themed episodes on this show, one was called "Lucy the Gun Moll", which had her working with Robert Stack to catch a gangster, another was called "Lucy and the Lost Star" which co-starred Joan Crawford, and had a fantasy sequence with The Untouchables theme.

The Untouchables was a Desilu Productions show. When Desi Arnaz was putting the final touches on The Untouchables , he had to ask Lucy about hiring Walter Winchell to be the narator. Winchell had done many announcements about Lucille Ball's alleged Communist activities, and Lucy still held a grudge.

But when Desi said "Lucy! This is business! For reasons which are not entirely clear, thirty episodes have entered the public domain, two are from the first season black and white ; twenty-one are from the fifth season all episodes in that season, minus episode eighteen, "Lucy Puts Main Street on the Map", which is apparently still under copyright ; and seven are from the sixth season seven of the first eight episodes, with episode five, "Lucy Gets Her Diploma", apparently still under copyright.

Lucy was very superstitious. She actually believed a major reason for her success with the first series was that her character's last name, Ricardo, had an "A" and a "R" in it.

Which is why with this show the last name was "Carmichael", and for Here's Lucy , it was "Carter", and Life with Lucy , it was "Barker".

The breakfast cereal eaten by the cast was apple sauce, which tended to photograph like oatmeal, but held up better under the hot studio lights. It was during this period, when Lucy starred on this show, that she greenlit Star Trek And indeed, it is because of Lucy's decision to greenlight the show that it became one of the most successful tv franchises in Hollywood history, with two first-run spinoffs, Star Trek Discovery, and Picard, airing as we speak!

Richard Burton said he detested Lucille Ball as a result of appearing on her program. He said he had murderous fantasies while they were working together and never wanted to see her again.

At one point in the conversation, Dede warned the guest, "Be careful with Lucy! She's a bitch! Only when I'm working. Charles Lane appeared occasionally in the first season as Mr. But Lane had trouble remembering his lines and his character was written out of the show. Garry Marshall was a writer for awhile on this show. Lucy has said in interviews that she got more hate mail for divorcing Desi than she did when she was accused of being a communist by the House Of Un-American Activity.

Season one, episode eleven was originally meant to be "Lucy and Viv Fight Over Harry", but was shut down during filming, due to production problems. This was the only episode of the series to be shut down. Lucy almost died twice while filming episodes of her shows, and in both cases, you can see footage of this. On I Love Lucy , she started choking on one of the grapes that got stuck in her throat during season five, episode twenty-three, "Lucy's Italian Movie", and almost died. The crew members, who hadn't realized she was choking while they were filming it, had to assist her and pull the grape out.

On this show, Lucy almost drowned during season one, episode eighteen, "Lucy and Viv Put in a Shower". Lucy got stuck while they were filming the shower flooding sequence and could not pull her head above breathing level. Vivian Vance, who finally noticed that she was struggling, had to pull her head up above breathing level, and saved her life, and all of it was on camera. Lucille Ball told Carol Burnett, "After Desi left, and I had to take over the show, that's when they added the 's' to my last name.

While working on this show, Candy Moore, Ralph Hart, and Jimmy Garrett were required to attend three hours of school each day on the Desilu lot. Their teacher was called Ms. After starring in a disappointing show on Broadway, "Wildcat", and some other failed projects, Lucy came back to television, in a sitcom that was exactly the same as her last one. It was considered an admission of failure by many in the industry, that she couldn't springboard I Love Lucy into some sort of film career.

But at the time, Desilu Productions was in the red and in danger of being shut down, so she had to take desperate measures.

She only intended this series to run for two years or so, and the decision was completely financially motivated. Garry Marshall became a staff writer on the show.

According to the Lucille Ball biography "Ball Of FIre", Desi Arnaz; who was still a co-owner of Desilu at the start of this show; stood on the side lines after the first taping, watching Viv and Lucy go through their motions in the scene.

Supposedly Arnaz cried a little bit watching this; feeling sad that he was no longer part of the action. Vivan, after they were done rehearsing, and seeing that Arnaz was crying, came over, put her arm around Desi's shoulder, and consoled him.

She said "Oh Desi! I'm sorry! It's not the same, is it? Interestingly, Arnaz would not make an appearance on this show; but his onscreen co-hort Bill Frawley did, in towards the end of the series' run on the "Lucy and the Countess Have a Horse Guest" episode. Although it never gets credit for this, this show was groundbreaking in several ways.

First of all having a household run by two women, sans husbands, in the early 60s was both daring and groundbreaking. Also Viv played a divorcee; a first for a lead character on a TV show.

Also Lucy got a job towards the end of the run of the series, working as a secretary for banker Mr.